Najib Was Sworn in As PM on 3 April 2009, 10 Years Later He’s Facing Trial on the Same Date

If y’all didn’t know, former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s corruption case trial will start tomorrow (3 April 2019) at 2pm and many Malaysians are anticipating the outcome of the first trial.

Following that, the Star pointed out that the trial’s date is actually the same date (April 3rd) when Najib was first sworn in as the PM of Malaysia back in 2009.

FYI, the ex-Umno leader currently faces seven charges for money laundering, criminal breach of trust and abuse of power for misappropriating funds amounting to RM42 million from SRC International.

On the other hand, BFM News tweeted that Najib’s corruption trial could be postponed because he has filed a “judicial review” against the Federal Court’s decision to lift the stay order during his trial. You can read the tweet below:

Datuk Seri Najib Razak's corruption trial tomorrow may be postponed. This is after the former prime minister filed a judicial review application against the Federal Court's refusal to grant him an order to stay the trial of his cases involving SRC International pic.twitter.com/9enrtZgr42

During the trial, attorney-General (AG) Tommy Thomas will be the lead prosecutor of the case and he will read out the opening statement which contains facts and evidence of the graft case. According to the report, the prosecution team has prepared 63 witnesses and some of them are government officials.

Not only that, 35 volumes of documents which contain over 3,000 pages were submitted to “the defence by the prosecution”. Some of these documents included SRC International’s meeting minutes too. Phew, that’s a lot of documents!